Dictionary entry
Sweatshop
Pronunciation: /ˈswɛtʃɒp/
Pronunciation
/ˈswɛtʃɒp/
Myanmar Meaning
အလုပ်သမားများကို မဝရေစာ ပေး၍ခိုင်းသည့် စီးပွားရေး လုပ်ငန်း။
Definition
sweatshop /'swet ʃɒp/ n ( derog ) အလုပ္သမားမ်ားကို မဝေရစာ ေပး၍ခိုင္းသည့္ စီးပြားေရး လုပ္ငန္း။
Examples
- ‘Hundreds of other Asian women are believed to be virtually imprisoned in similar conditions in illegal clothing sweatshops.’
- ‘The conditions in the sweatshops of south east Asia are reminiscent of the way in which Engels described conditions in the north of England in the 1840s.’
- ‘On Tuesday police rescued child workers from a sweatshop operating in the Manila suburb of Binondo.’
- ‘We'll speak with an author who says corporate America is run like a sweatshop and workers can hardly keep up.’
- ‘Working conditions vary widely from the worst kind of sweatshop to factory complexes with clinics
- schools and entertainment.’
- ‘The existence of sweatshops in Hong Kong is directly attributable to the Cold War.’
- ‘Saipan has served as a haven for Asian Pacific sweatshops for major US retailers.’
- ‘If we listen to some of the speeches from the other side of the House
- we get the impression that some of these workshops are sweatshops.’
- ‘The boycott will benefit the workers within the sweatshop.’
- ‘China is a good economic competitor
- where millions of people work for slave wages in sweatshops to make U.S. corporations richer.’
- ‘Two weeks ago
- Farias's office participated in 81 raids of sweatshops that employ immigrant labor.’
- ‘Third world workers want to toil in sweatshops
- recognizing that it improves their prospects.’
- ‘Higher oil and raw material prices have also forced factory sweatshops to further slash the impoverished wages and conditions.’
- ‘Morris could see neither of these in the use of machinery in the Victorian factories and sweatshops that surrounded him.’
- ‘They can be found on farms and plantations
- and in factories and sweatshops.’
- ‘Are you careful not to buy products that are mass-produced by low-paid workers in third-world sweatshops?’
- ‘A sweatshop is a factory where the workers do long hours for low pay
- they may have to work in uncomfortable or dangerous conditions.’
- ‘Lawsuit against fashion designer details sweatshop conditions in New York City garment factories’
- ‘The program featured images of women and children working long hours in sweatshops making sneakers.’
- ‘Western concern at the plight of workers in sweatshops is touching.’